Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update

[Teresa and Dale <teendale@vista-express.com>]

Daniel da Veiga wrote:

> On 6/26/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen <bo.andresen@zlin.dk> wrote:
>
>> On Monday 26 June 2006 14:36, Sean wrote:
>> > What is the best way to handle the files that etc-update states
>> needs to
>> > be updated?
>>
>> There are three competing utilities for this purpose. The official
>> etc-update
>> (which sucks and should have been deprecated a long time ago... ;) ),
>> dispatch-conf and cfg-update.
>>
>
> What's the matter with etc-update? It just does it all...
>
>> > It displays a list of all the files that need updating, but does it
>> > actually put this list into a file anywhere so that I can manually
>> look
>> > them over to see what the differences are?
>>
>> This will show the new files:
>>
>> # find /etc -name ._cfg*
>>
>> > Or could anyone suggest the best steps to proceed?
>>
>> What you should do is figure out how to use either dispatch-conf or
>> cfg-update. Personally I use dispatch-conf because I learned that
>> first and
>> it satisfies my needs. I think cfg-update is superior but never
>> bothered to
>> investigate. A couple of references:
>>
>> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=4
>> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=86622
>>
>
> I don't see why use other tool. Etc-update works great...
> I've been using it since my first Gentoo install 2 years ago and never
> needed (neither bothered looking for) this other tools you mentioned.
>

I have tried the other tools and they are not any better.  The biggest
thing, no matter what tool you use, is to be VERY careful what you
update.  For me, about 95% of the stuff is fine but that 5% can keel you
or make you wish you were dead.  O_O

Dale
:-)  :-)
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